Deborah Ann Boone (born September 22, 1956), known professionally as Debby Boone, is an American singer and theater actress. She is best known for her 1977 hit, "You Light Up My Life," which spent a then-record ten weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and won her a Grammy Award the following year for Best New Artist.
In the 1980s, her music career first focused on country music resulting in the No. 1 country hit, "Are You On The Road To ...
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Deborah Ann Boone (born September 22, 1956), known professionally as Debby Boone, is an American singer and theater actress. She is best known for her 1977 hit, "You Light Up My Life," which spent a then-record ten weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and won her a Grammy Award the following year for Best New Artist.
In the 1980s, her music career first focused on country music resulting in the No. 1 country hit, "Are You On The Road To Lovin' Me Again." She later recorded Christian music which garnered her four Top 10 Contemporary Christian albums as well as two more Grammys. Throughout her career, Boone has appeared in several musical theater productions and has co-authored many children's books with husband, Gabriel Ferrer.
Debby Boone was born September 22, 1956 in Hackensack, New Jersey, USA. She is the third of four daughters born to 1950s singer-actor Pat Boone and Shirley Lee Foley Boone (daughter of country music star Red Foley). When Boone was 14 years old, she...
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